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8/1 FRI EMBARRASSING FRUITS CD Release Party/HAMMER NO MORE THE FINGERS/OPENING FLOWER HAPPY BIRD 8/2 SAT NEIL HAMBURGER / DAIQUIRI / BRIAN VICINI 8/3 SUN DAVID LEE (ex-Legendary Shack Shakers) & HIS MERCENARIES / THE TREMORS 8/4 MON 506 Free For All: BOB FUNCK / ADAM SAMPIERI 8/5 TUE ALINA SIMONE / Experimental Philosophy Book Release Party 8/6 WED 506 Free For All: SWAN QUARTER THE INTERNATIONAL GRAPEVINE 8/7 THU BOWERBIRDS / FESTIVAL / SHARON VAN ETTEN 8/8 FRI LEMMING MALLOY / THE TRAVESTIES/WEATHERKINGS 8/9 SAT Indie Rock Karaoke 8/10 SUN THE FLAT TIRES / TROUBLE WALKERS/THE DRY HEATHENS 8/11 MON MIDTOWN DICKENS / INVISABLE / DARK TIDE ARROGANCE 8/23 CAT’S CRADLE 8/12 TUE Cat’s Cradle Presents CASS McCOMBS VIKING MOSES The ArtsCenter 8/13 WED ExtraTerrestrial Circus Experiment Presents: Quantanime 8/14 THU LUCERO / THE GLOSSARY Open Jazz Jam (8/11) 8/15 FRI MARGOT & THE NUCLEAR SO & SO’s/THE AUDRYE SESSIONS 8/16 SAT WXY-Cy Dance Party (Benefit for Cy Rawls) Blue Horn Lounge 8/17 SUN 506 Music Trivia Night David Spencer Band (8/1) See No Weevil 8/18 MON 506 Free For All: INSTANT JONES/JOKES&JOKES&JOKES (8/2) Jule Brown Band (8/8) Blue Diablo (8/9) 8/20 WED OH NO! OH MY! / ROYAL BANGS / ANTENNA SHOES 8/21 THU GRAPPLING HOOK (Cy Rawls Benefit) Erin Brown Band (8/13) Tain Collins (8/14) 8/22 FRI Cat’s Cradle Presents ONEIDA / DIRTY FACES Dogwood Deddy (8/15) Steve Jack Band (8/16) 8/23 SAT Cat’s Cradle Presents OXFORD COLLAPSES LOVE AS LAUGHTER Pete Waggoner (8/20) Bill West (8/21) Marla new river rock skippers 8/1 the cave 8/24 SUN Gorilla Productions - Battle of the Bands Vickers Band (8/22) Good Rocking Sam (8/23) 8/25 MON AV Geeks Presents “S is For Sissys”/(A Benefit for Cy Rawls) Chackalacky Tabachi Blues Band (8/26) Wes 8/26 TUE 506 Free For All: COUGAR MAGNUM Collins (8/28) Steve Jack (8/29) ary Title, New Frontiers, Paper Rival (8/13) The ers, The Dry Heathens (8/10) Midtown Dickens, 8/27 WED Secondhand Freespace: Booking the Triangle & Beyond Faint, Jaguar Love, Shy Child (8/15) The Melvins, Invisible, Dark Tide (8/11) Cass McCombs, 8/28 THU JAMES JACKSON TOTH (Wooden Wand) THE DUTCHESS & THE DUKE Cat’s Cradle Big Business, Double Negative (8/16) Virginia Viking Moses (8/12) Extraterrestrial Circus 8/29 FRI Pre-Prog Day show with SPEECHLESS/KINETIC ELEMENT DJ Forge Dance Party (8/1) Don Dixon & The Coalition, Alexa Wilkinson, Luego (8/21) Per- Experiment (8/13) Lucero, The Glossary (8/14) 8/30 SAT MONSONIA CD Release Show Jump Rabbits, Jeffrey Dean Foster and the Birds petual Groove (8/22) An Evening with Arrogance Margot & the Nuclear So & So’s (8/15) Instant 8/31 SUN ARMED SUSPECTS 9/5 FRI PINE STATE of Prey (8/2) The Mother Truckers (8/6) Sarah (8/23) DJ Forge v Disco Inferno (8/31) Jones, Jokes & Jokes & Jokes (8/18) Oh No! Oh 9/6 SAT DOES IT OFFEND YOU, YEAH Lee Guthrie and Johnny Irion, Jeff Crawford The Cave My!, Royal Bangs, Antenna Shoes (8/20) Up 9/7 SUN LIAM FINN / THE VEILS (8/8) Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, the Irons, Grappling Hook, Tooth (8/21) Oneida, 9/13 SAT THE MOANERS Evangelicals, I Was Totally Destroying It (8/9) New River Rock Skippers, Jule Brown (8/1) Abe Dirty Faces, Bolmangani (8/22) Oxford Collapse, 9/14 SUN WITCHCRAFT Reid, Aminal Music, Sweet By & By (8/2) Matt 9/16 TUE DEATH VESSEL / MICAH BLUE SMALDONE The Hold Steady, Loved Ones (8/12) The Honor- Love As Laughter (8/23) Gorilla Productions 9/18 THU ARI HEST / SASHA DOBSON Sneed, John Saylor (8/5) Brandon Herndon, Battle of the Bands (8/24) Cougar Magnum 9/20 SAT Reklis Entertainment Presents GASLIGHT ANTHEM John Pardue, Juanita & the Rabbit, Virgo 9 AMERICAN STEEL (8/26) James Jackson Toth, The Dutchess & the 9/24 WED JapaNite Fever Tour w/ PEELANDER-Z (8/7) Muddy Honcho, Bo-Stevens, Souhpaw Duke (8/28) Speechless, Kinetic Element (8/29) TUS SHI MA MI RE / BAKUBENI / QUAFF (8/8) Grimball & Long, Pneurotics, Mystery Monsonia (8/30) Armed Suspects (8/31) 9/26 FRI THE JUAN MACLEAN Road (8/9) The Moaners, Sixgun Lullaby (8/10) 9/27 SAT TRANSPORTATION CD Release Show Nightlight 9/30 TUE Cat’s Cradle Presents THE FELICE BROTHERS John Buzby (8/12) Johnny Cook (8/13) Pee AA BONDY Waggoner, My Teenage Stride (8/14) Dorsie The Tourist, The Invisible Hand, Dylan Gilbert, 10/5 SUN Girls Rock & Girls Rule Tour Event 10/6 MON SAY HI / JUKEBOX THE GHOST Fyffe & the Fearless Flies, John Howie Jr. & The Sibling Project (8/1) FrequeNC Records 10/10 FRI Cat’s Cradle Presents JONATHAN RICHMAN Nathan Golub, Django Haskins (8/15) Rodi Ray, Night: Boys Lie, Turbo P, DJs Mothersbroth- 10/11 SAT RA RA RIOT / WALTER MEEGO / THE MORNING BENDERS Killer Filler (8/16) Americans in France, Witch ers (8/2) Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Clang 10/12 SUN Cat’s Cradle Presents THE WEDDING PRESENT 10/13 MON TALKDEMONIC Hats (8/17) Reid Johnson, Sgt. Dunbar & the Quartet, Unicornucopia, Ami Dang, Boyzone, 10/14 TUE DELTA SPIRIT / PATTERN IS MOVEMENT Baned (8/18) Muy Cansado (8/19) Teh Vodak, Chairlift (8/3) Extreme Animals, Fortress of 10/19 SUN AWESOME COLOR Pariah Beat (8/21) Big Daddy Love, Joe Bell Amplitude, Secret Boyfriend, DJ Nasty Boots 10/20 MON PIERCED ARROWS (former Dead Moon) DIRTY LITTLE HEATERS & the Stinging Blades (8/22) Pagan Hellcats, (8/4) Br’er, The Groves, Hermit Thrushes (8/7) 10/21 TUE A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS / SIAN ALICE GROUP 8VggWdgdÉh Blag’ard, Hate Prose (8/23) Curtis Peoples, Todd +/-, Last Years’ Model, Stella by Starlight (8/13) ALL THE SAINTS Carey, Keaton Simons (8/25) Howlies, Giant Remora, Electric Bird Noise, Glissade (8/15) The 10/23 THU BORN RUFFIANS / PLANTS & ANIMALS / THE HUGUENOTS 11/13 THU BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT Tigers (8/26) Pinche Gringo, Rat Jackson (8/29) Shudders, Illicitizen, Young Millionaire (8/21) 7Zhi The Starlings, Joe Romeo & the Orange County International Grapevine, Blanket Truth (8/22) 506 W. Franklin St. • Chapel Hill 942-5506 • www.local506.com Volunteers (8/30) Reservoir 8]VeZa General Store Café Spacelab Soundsystem (8/2) Western Civ, Michael Holland (8/1) Down River (8/2) Bernie Combat Zone, Change the Station, The Heron Petteway Trio (8/7) David Dyer & the Crooked (8/3) Nationale, Pink Flag, Blood Red River =^aa Smile Band (8/8) The Water Callers, Tad Dreis (8/6) Rockin’ Ammonia Karaoke (8/7) Constric- (8/9) Marie Vanderbeck Trio (8/14) Killer Filler tor, Idea of Beauty (8/11) Bout it Boyz, Studio (8/15) Bluegrass Experience (8/16) Tony Galiani Gangsters (8/14) Dirty Johnny and the Make- 7Vg Band (8/21) Blue Diablo (8/22) Hwy54Band believes, The Dirty Little Heaters (8/28) (8/23) Bo Lankenau & Friends (8/28) Megan Open Eye Café Jean Band (8/29) Catbird Seat (8/30) DeZcBdc#"Hjc# Crys Mathews (8/1) Chris Wimberley (8/6) Local 506 Dollface (8/8) Sawyer-Goldberg Ensemble (8/9) '/(%e#b#"'V#b# Embarassing Fruits, Hammer No More the Tango (8/15) Fingers, Opening Flower Happy Bird (8/1) Neil Weaver Street Market Hamburger, Daiquiri, Brian Vicini (8/2) Bob ) * '& $ 'L#; g Vc` a ^cHi# Funck, Adam Sampieri (8/4) Alina Simone (8/5) The Donnybrook Lads (8/3) Shadze with Wilton 8]VeZa=^aa Swan Quarter, The International Grape- Dubois (8/10) Joe Woodson and Bill Hicks, The vine (8/6) Bowerbirds, Festival, Sharon Van Bean Trees (8/17) Club Boheme (8/24) Magno- .&.".+-".(%- Etten (8/7) Lemming Malloy, The Travesties, lia Klezmer Band (8/31) Weatherkings (8/8) The Flat Tires Trouble Walk-

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with special guest DON DIXON nfluential Chapel Hill musician Don Dixon will play two shows this month bon iver at Cat’s Cradle. Don Dixon & the Jump Rabbits play this Saturday, Aug. 2, august 8 and he will appear again Aug. 23 with Arrogance. Dixon was a founding wilcoworld.net-ticketmaster.com H catscradle.com member of Arrogance, an influential and popular band in Chapel Hill in the boothampitheatre.com 1970s, and produced R.E.M.’s 1983 popular debut album, Murmur. Come Tickets will be available free of Ticketmaster service fees at: Tout and see an original Chapel Hill favorite and one of the men responsible for Cat’s Cradle, Schoolkids Records (Raleigh), CD Alley (Chapel Hill), our rich local music history. Booth Amphitheatre Box Office andC haz’s Bull City Records

venues S carrboro chapel hill Nightlight next 4051/2 W. Rosemary St. the ArtsCenter Blue Horn Lounge 933-5550 300-G E. Main St. 125 E. Franklin St. nightlightclub.com issue: 929-2787 929-1511 bluehorn- artscenterlive.org loungechapelhill.com hillsborough August 29 Cat’s Cradle The Cave Blue Bayou Club 300 E. Main St. 4521/2 W. Franklin St., 106 S. Churton St. advertising 967-9053 968-9308 732-2555 deadline: catscradle.com caverntavern.com bluebayouclub.com Open Eye Café Local 506 August 22 101 S. Greensboro St. 506 W. Franklin St. pittsboro 968-9410 942-5506 General Store Café CONTACT openeyecafe.com local506.com 39 West St. Reservoir Mansion 462 542-2432 Marty Cassaday 100-A Brewer Ln. 462 W. Franklin St. thegeneralstorecafe.com 919.942.2100 933-3204 967-7913 reservoirbar.net mansion462.com [email protected]

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